Motivational Quotes

Belief

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Belief

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise